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: re: mfa programs

updated fri 11 nov 05

 

Lee Love on thu 10 nov 05


Hi Roberta,

If you subscribe to CM, check this article out from the
current issue that can be downloaded online:

http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/currentissue.asp

Mason Riddle, the author, is visiting Mashiko next week.
Will show her around.

Supposed to be the best designed ceramics studio ever.
Enough to make me think about going back to school. ;^)

The instructors are: Mark Pharis, Curtis Hoard, Tom Lane, Margaret
Bohls and Tetsuya Yamada I know Curt and Mark are interested in pots.

*The Regis Center for Arts
Warren MacKenzie Ceramics Studios
*/by Mason Riddle/
*
** *"By all accounts, the University of
Minnesota's (U of M) Department of Art went from the ridiculous to the
sublime in September 2003 when the 155,000-square-foot Regis Center for
Art opened."

--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

--Leonardo da Vinci

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clennell on thu 10 nov 05


Lee Love wrote:

> Hi Roberta,
>
> If you subscribe to CM, check this article out from the
> current issue that can be downloaded online:
>
> http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/currentissue.asp
>
> Mason Riddle, the author, is visiting Mashiko next week.
> Will show her around.
>
> Supposed to be the best designed ceramics studio ever.
> Enough to make me think about going back to school. ;^)
>
> The instructors are: Mark Pharis, Curtis Hoard, Tom Lane, Margaret
> Bohls and Tetsuya Yamada I know Curt and Mark are interested in pots.


Lee: What might interest those in the "should I pursue a MFA?" debate is
that Mark Pharis head of Ceramics at the University of Minnesota did not
complete his BFA much less an MFA. Warren MacKenzie recognized his
unbeleivable table as a ceramic artist and I believe got him the job. Mel
might corrcet me on this but we had him do a workshop at Sheridan and he
said he didn't complete school.
Sometimes talent wins. I think he makes incredible work.
Cheers,
Tony
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Sour Cherry Pottery
4545 King Street
Beamsville, Ontario
CANADA L0R 1B1
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com/current_news/news_letter.html